INSIDE GOT OUT, BUT THANKFULLY NOT FOR LONG. WE'RE GLAD YOU'RE HERE WITH US FOR LOCAL 4 NEWS AT 5:00. THE STANDOFF LASTED FOR HOURS BUT THE ESCAPE JUST MINUTES. Ruth: THIS ALL STARTED WHEN WOODLEY FIRED A GUNSHOT INSIDE A HOME IN THE 5500 BLOCK OF IVANHOE. Devin: SHAWN, YOU WERE THERE FOR MOST OF IT AND THING GOT INTENSE. Shawn: I HAD A FRONT-ROW SEAT FOR THIS. THERE WERE POLICE CRAWLING ALL OVER THIS CORNER, INTERESTED IN THE THIRD HOUSE ON IVANHOE. THAT'S WHERE THE GUNMAN WAS HOLED UP SINCE 10:00 THIS MORNING. WITH ALL THE POLICE AROUND, HE WAS ABLE TO GIVE THEM THE SLIP, RUNNING THROUGH A BACKYARD INTO AN ALLEY HERE AND HIDING INTO A MAN'S HOUSE ON THE NEXT STREET OVER. SO WE ASKED DETROIT POLICE THE KEY QUESTION HERE: HOW IN THE WORLD WITH SO MUCH POLICE AROUND WAS HE ABLE TO GET AWAY FROM THEM? DETROIT POLICE TACTICAL RESPONSE TEAM MEMBERS FLOODING THIS WEST SIDE STREET SURROUNDING A HOUSE WITH A BARRICADED GUNMAN SINCE SHOTS WERE FIRED INSIDE THE HOME AT 10:00 THIS MORNING. THEY HAD NO COMMUNICATION WITH THE MAN. BUT AS THEY GOT CLOSER, THEY FOUND AN OPEN WINDOW. SO MANY OFFICERS AROUND, HE ESCAPED AND BROKE INTO THE BASEMENT OF THIS HOME. IT'S A HOME A BLOCK AWAY. THE HOMEOWNER WAS HOME AT THE TIME. AND WHAT WAS THAT HOMEOWNER DOING? WHERE WERE YOU AT THE TIME? IN THE BED WATCHING TV. AS A MATTER OF FACT, I WAS WATCH Y'ALL. Shawn: K-9 UNITS WERE CALLED IN BUT NONE WERE AVAILABLE. THE HOMEOWNER CALLED 911. POLICE MOVED IN AND FOUND THE MAN STILL ARMED HIDING IN THE BASEMENT. THIS TIME, HE GAVE UP. BUT HOW DID HE GET AWAY FROM POLICE THE FIRST TIME. AS A PERIMETER IS SET UP, THERE'S DISTANCE FROM THAT CORNER OF THAT PARTICULAR LOCATION AND HE WAS ABLE TO GET A HEAD START. AS HE SCALED THE FENCE, THE CREWS WERE RIGHT ON TOP OF HIM. Shawn: IN CUSTODY IS 36-YEAR-OLD DERRICK WOODLEY. HE IS ON PAROLE FROM PRISON FOR CARJACKING. WHATEVER TICKED IT OFF, IT WAS A BAD SITUATION, PERIOD, FOR THE NEIGHBORS AND EVERYBODY IN

DETROIT -

Detroit police have taken 36-year-old Derrick Woodley into custody after a standoff that lasted several hours at a home on the city's west side. Woodley is on parole from prison for carjacking.

Woodley allegedly fired a gunshot inside a home in the 5500 block of Ivanhoe Street on Detroit's west side. Commander Elvin Barren said the gunman got into an argument with a woman in the home and is believed to have fired shots, without hitting anyone, from a handgun.

Police were all over the scene with Woodley inside the house since 10 a.m., but he was still able to escape by running through a backyard into an alley before hiding in a man's house on the next street.

How was Woodley able to get away with so many police officers around? Police had no communication with the man, but as they got closer to the home they found an open window.

Woodley broke into the basement of a home on the next block, with the homeowner still inside. What was that man doing while Woodley broke into his home?

"In the bed watching TV," the man said. "As a matter of fact, I was watching (Channel 4)."

The homeowner called 911 and police found the man still armed in the basement. This time he gave up.

"We had our eyes on him the whole time," Barren said. "But as a perimeter was set up there was some distance from that corner of that particular location and he was able to get a head start. As he scaled the fence our crews were right on top of him."

The woman was able to get out of the house without injury.

Barren said the gunman was just released from prison in April and is a parole absconder.

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